Solar decathlon

Our pick of the winning and best entries from this year's international competition to design and build functional solar-powered houses, held in Versailles, France. Photographs by Lucien Lung

Our pick of the winning and best entries from this year's international competition to design and build functional solar-powered houses, held in Versailles, France. Photographs by Lucien Lung

A team representing four Swiss schools emerged as the overall winner in this year's Solar Decathlon in Denver, Colorado, with an entry called "NeighborHub." The biennial competition included a total of 11 student teams this year, two of them from Europe, that have been at work for nearly two years designing and building solar-powered demonstration homes. In addition to competing for the overall winner's title, teams also were judged in 10 separate areas, such as architecture, market…

UPDATE: See the Watershed home in all its glory at the 2011 Solar Decathlon. This home placed 1st in the Solar Decathlon, also winning the Architecture category along the way. The original review of the model follows below. - For the upcoming 2011 Solar Decathlon, the team from the University of Maryland, College Park, is striving

Built by Team Austria in Irvine, United States with date 2013. Images by Jason Flakes/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. A team of Austrian students from Vienna University of Technology (Team Austria) has won top honors for “designing, bu...

Image 25 of 41 from gallery of AIR House / Czech Technical University. Photograph by AIR House - Solar Decathlon Team Czech Republic

The New Zealand team from Victoria University of Wellington is the first-ever finalist from the Southern Hemisphere in the US Department of Energy...

Completed in 2022 in Wuppertal, Germany. Images by Marvin Hillebrand. The House Demonstration Unit is a research building of the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf as a contribution to the Solar Decathlon Europe...

At the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe competition that just concluded in Madrid, the CANOPEA house by French team Rhône Alpes has been awarded the first prize. Very close in the ranking, in second place, was the Spanis...

The House Demonstration Unit is a research building of the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf as a contribution to the Solar Decathlon Europe and the living.lab NRW.The Solar Decathlon is considered the largest international building energy competition. For the 20th time, universities worldwide were asked to develop and implement ideas for sustainable building and living. In June 2022, the final took place for the first time in Germany, more precisely in Wuppertal. The…